Korg releases Korg Triton VST

[AcrossTheSky]

well...we are talking about the past.
..future wise...2020 and UP..
I'll be really interested to see and hear music and a new list of musicians
who are using the NEW OLD TRITON VST...

come up with stg new in 2020..
why not load it into the BWig Grid.....yeeee

let there be a NEW OLD TRITON VST tune in... radio...station....from the Mars..

[Ben H]

Has anyone posted a video of Jordan Rudess playing/pimping this thing yet?

[Teksonik]

While this appears to be a bit out of the range I'd want to pay I have to applaud Korg for doing something besides yet another analog mono synth.

I've still got a Korg 03 R/W, Roland JV880, and U220, and Alesis S4 Plus although they rarely ever get powered up these days. So a plugin that could bring sounds from that era might be welcome here.

Worth a demo at least......

[BONES]

You do understand that a 40GB library only accesses the sounds it needs, right?

Sure. And you're very lucky that you know exactly the sounds you need, at all times, even before you hear them in place.

Surely you are just pretending to be this stupid? I don't need to know which samples I'll need, I have access to presets that know all that, just as Triton does. It's kind of the art of making a really good sample-based virtual instrument - taking all that tedium away from the user.

Perhaps others think the Triton sounds better than a lot of them, for various things, and that space used isn't the only factor to determine musical quality?

Then those people are wrong (and probably idiots into the bargain). The magic of Korg's workstations was how much they could compress their sounds and still maintain reasonable quality. But they don't come close to matching what we can get in VSTi today. e.g. AFAIK, Triton doesn't offer any round-robin capacity at all.

For which we have an embarrassment of riches in all the V/A synths at our disposal.

Then enjoy using them. The Triton isn't really a VA synth.

Now you are just changing the goalposts. Go back and read the context in which I was responding.

It took under a minute to find these articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korg_Triton#Notable_users
https://reverb.com/news/the-most-iconic ... -by-decade
https://www.attackmagazine.com/reviews/ ... -synths/6/
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/th ... ern-music/
https://www.factmag.com/2016/09/15/14-m ... nt-synths/
http://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/12/21/8-i ... t-hip-hop/
Anyway, while you’re obviously wrong about it’s significance, you’re not wrong to dislike the plugin, you can dislike whatever you want! We don’t all have to like the same things

Maybe you should have spent a little more than a minute actually reading them. The Wikipedia article, for example, traces the Triton's lineage in much the same way I have and criticises the quality of it's sample ROM (poor pianos, apparently).

[trackbout]

^ you realize that historical significance and low fidelity pianos have absolutely nothing to do with one another right?

[Teksonik]

Damn, it's taken me less time than the 20 demo timeout to know I want this synth.

Some really nice sounds and the 8 layers allow for some very complex sounds. I could have a ton of fun with this.

The 5 different GUI sizes should suit just about everybody. I'm using Large on 1920x1080 and there are two sizes above that "Extended" and "Full". Looks great. This is what Korg GUIs should have been a long time ago.

Certainly not the synth for everybody but I like it....just can't justify the expense at the moment.

Oh and the Korg Software Pass seems to have worked quite well. I don't see any traces of it still running after I installed the demo.

EDIT: The Arp Presets are nice too. I seem to remember someone asking for them in the past. There are 2 Arps.

[trackbout]

... the Triton occupies a pretty sparsely populated area of the current plugin landscape.

What, an emulation of an old synth everyone lost interest in a few decades ago? Yeah, nobody else is doing that.

Nope. An emulation of a historically significant sample based workstation. Name one other that's not part of a cloud based subscription service.

Cubase. Of course it's not an emulation but an iteration because no-one ever lost interest in it.

CUBASE?! Oh man, I missed that response. Ok clearly you are just here to troll. I'm gonna duck out now and let you do your thing. Happy New Year!!

[Ah_Dziz]

What if you weren't producing music in 1998 and like the sound of the era? C:

I honestly am not really a fan of where the trend is going where every developer and their grandma is trying to make nothing but cleaner and cleaner wavetable synths. I'm not crazy for cleanliness or wavetables. I want character in my synths and in my music and music back then was filled with it.

It's all personal preference of course! everyone plows their own sonic landscape in the end. 2020 is already giving us plenty to choose from ^^

There were lots of “classic” albums made around the triton era. Working in hiphop (as I mostly do) it was the end of creative sampling and the beginning of very “fake” sounding over quantized “jay-z beats” (which is just what I call them). As with any instrument, you could do really cool stuff with it, and people did. It did, IMO, make for a large amount of very samey material coming out. If I remember correctly (and this may have been the trinity not the triton) you could add a VA and physical modeling card into it, and it had a pretty robust, sampling and sequencing implementation. It’s just kinda hardwired to a dip in quality overall for electronic music for me.
Hell I’d grab it myself just to see what it can do if the price wasn’t so silly, but I’m sure I can get it on a sale before too long.

JJ

[Pillimees]

Hi all!

I am interested in drum kits - are they editable?

Thanks
Rain

[EvilDragon]

Drumkits don't seem to be editable.

[Aloysius]

[dune_rave]

I hope this triton release is a sign of korg are near to update the old collection. I've sold my license years ago and i dunno whether i would buy it again.
I will demo triton, but with the purchase i'll wait until the whole collection is updated. currently the price is a bit high compared to other available stuff at the same amount of money.

edit: tried the demo, I simply don't like the GUI ,so after ten minutes stopped demoing. Bye Korg, See you in 2022.

[Teksonik]

It did, IMO, make for a large amount of very samey material coming out.

Just like every analog synth....

Anyway the more time I spend with the demo the more I like it. Such a refreshing change to all the VA synths released and just a ton of fun to program.

Takes me back to an era when Shaku, Bottle Blow, Pan Flutes, Bells, Ahhh Choirs etc ruled the land.

Don't look at it as a source of hyper realistic acoustic instruments but as an instrument capable of capturing the sound of an era. Certainly as deserving of nostalgia as the DX7.

I'm thinking of selling my DIVA license to get this.....that should tell you how I feel (and how little money I have in the budget for more plugins this time of year).

[trusampler]

Love the fact that Roland and Korg are continuing to support the VST format and bringing out these beloved synths, wonder when Yamaha will catch up to the idea, that the majority wants an ITB solution now,and workstations aren't as loved as much as they once we're. Thanks Korg and Roland

[EvilDragon]

Yamaha is acting through Steinberg which they own. HALion is a variant of Motif basically, in a way.